Law at the End of the Day

Larry Catá Backer's comments on current issues in transnational law and policy. These essays focus on the constitution of regulatory communities (political, economic, and religious) as they manage their constituencies and the conflicts between them. The context is globalization. This is an academic field-free zone: expect to travel "without documents" through the sometimes strongly guarded boundaries of international relations, constitutional, international, comparative, and corporate law.

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Foundation for Law and International Affairs (FLIA): Commentary on Charity Undertakings Law of the PRC (2nd Draft) 中华人民共和国慈善事业法(二审草案)

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Chinese authorities have invited commentaries on the 2nd Draft of the People's Republic of China Charity Undertakings Law of the PR...
Friday, January 29, 2016

My Commentary on the Charity Undertakings Law of the PRC (2nd Draft) 中华人民共和国慈善事业法(二审草案)

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  (Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015 ) In 2015, Chinese authorities released an initial draft of a Charity Undertakings Law 中华人民共和国慈善事业法...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

SUN Yuhua on “How Can the Judicial Interpretation of Internet Libel Break through the Firewall of the Constitution?”

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The law of libel, and especially the law of libel as applied to emerging forms of communication via the Internet has become a quite...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Should Financial Institutions Have Obligations to Manage the Human Rights Impacts of their Clients?: "Final Statement Friends of the Earth Europe and Friends of the Earth Netherlands/Milieudefensie - Rabobank"

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) Over the last half decade, at least, and in international circles, the relationships between banks and ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Flora Sapio on "The Foreign NGOs Management Law; Where do challenges Come From?"

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Globalization has produced a number of challenges for the nation-state.  Among the most difficult  involves its relationship to civil s...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Can the State Survive its Own Ambitions? A Reluctant Critque of Legalization of Corporate Social Responsibility Codes

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) In her book, Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility Codes (Hart Publishi...
Thursday, January 07, 2016

Corruption and Investment--Chinese Company ZTE Corp. Excluded From Norway Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment Universe

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On 7 January 2016, the Norges Bank decided to exclude the Chinese company ZTE Corporation , one of the world’s five largest producers ...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

New Paper Posted: "The Cuban Communist Party at the Cusp of Change: Preservationism or Evolution of Cuban Marxism-Leninism in the Shadow of Globalization

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015) The status quo that had been the Caribbean region--centering on the adversarial relationship between C...
Sunday, January 03, 2016

Democracy Part 32: Democracy and Transparency in an Age of Transnational Politics: Foreign Financing of NGOs, Democractic Legitimacy and Unequal State Power

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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016) At least since the Second World War American elites, as successors to and in concert with their West...
Saturday, January 02, 2016

Overcoming Contradiction: The 2016 Letter of the Yoruba Association of Cuba (Letra del Año para el 2016 de la Asociación Yoruba de Cuba )

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For the last four years I have written of the annual letter of the Cuban Council of the High Priests of Ifá ( Consejo Cubano De Sacerdot...
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Larry Catá Backer
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
I hope you enjoy these essays. Each treats aspects of the relationship between law, broadly understood, and human organization. My essays are about government and governance, based on the following assumptions: Humans organize themselves in all sorts of ways. We bind ourselves to organization by all sorts of instruments. Law has been deployed to elaborate differences between economic organizations (principally corporations, partnerships and other entities), political organization (the state, supra-national, international, and non-governmental organizations), religious, ethnic and family organization. I am not convinced that these separations, now sometimes blindly embraced, are particularly useful. This skepticism serves as the foundation of the essays here. My thanks to Arianna Backer for research assistance.
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